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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The organizational form of a literary work.






2. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






3. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






4. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






5. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






6. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






7. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






8. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






9. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






10. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






11. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






12. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






13. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






14. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






15. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






16. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






17. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






18. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






19. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






20. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






21. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






22. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






23. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






24. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






25. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






26. A four line stanza in a poem.






27. The dictionary meaning of a word.






28. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






29. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






30. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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31. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






32. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






33. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






34. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






35. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






36. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






37. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






38. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






39. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






40. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






41. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






42. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






43. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






44. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






45. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






46. The time and place of a story or play.






47. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






48. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






49. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






50. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.